Kiwi: "As all teachers are teachers of English" oh how I wish it were true, but in America that is not the case and in fact many English teachers should be "dis-credited"
Jennielee: goin' down e ocean grab nme a six a NattyBo, hun. How's that for the vernacular? I wasn't raised speaking like that, buit went to college and had a Baltimoron for a roommate so I learnated it good!
CWatt: thank you for your kind and formal greeting.
And yes, everyone Parrr is a former student of mine. I bumped into him at a restaurant. He recognized me, not vise versa. (The kid's grown up now, ok?) Grammar Police has been an in-school persona of mine for years. DOH!
oh no another newbie!
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I would have disagreed with the statement that "all teachers are teachers of English" earlier, but I thought the topic was dying down. Not everyone speaks English! Perhaps it should be "all teachers are teachers of language and grammar", in whatever language is appropriate.
I was a teaching assistant in grad school (believe me, no one really cares about trigonometry) and I reviewed my group's documents when I was a supervisor. No document got past me with spelling errors! I was "the devil with the red pen". But, my group got even with me. They marked up a copy of a recipe that I had given one of the group members and I think they managed to work in every correction I had made on their documents. What goes around, comes around - in the spirit of fun, of course.
I was a teaching assistant in grad school (believe me, no one really cares about trigonometry) and I reviewed my group's documents when I was a supervisor. No document got past me with spelling errors! I was "the devil with the red pen". But, my group got even with me. They marked up a copy of a recipe that I had given one of the group members and I think they managed to work in every correction I had made on their documents. What goes around, comes around - in the spirit of fun, of course.